December 2010
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Story: The Office Christmas Party
Posted somewhere else a long time ago. If you like the 60s DC comic-type books and a story of HORROR ON TWO EARTHS, then fine. If not, then you are a normal, well-adjusted person and I envy you.
New York, NY - Dec. 20, 1968 - 9:30 pm By this time, the party had reached that stage where the only staff members left were either the ones who didn’t have families to go home to or the ones...
“In a more recent case, so many radioactive wasp nests were found spread across...”
– The Seattle Times | Radioactive rabbit trapped at Hanford
In the story- the rabbit who drank radioactive water from a former nuclear weapons facility was killed and disposed of as waste. But, I think the main takeaway here is radioactive wasps.
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“[Boat Trip] was panned by the critics on its initial release and performed...”
– But, of course, on it’s subsequent re-release, it was hailed as a classic for the ages.
Wikipedia | Boat Trip
Get a good look, Costanza?
After all of these years, it is still weird to me that the producers of The Late Shift cast Bob Balaban as Warren Littlefield, well after he had played Russell Dalrymple on Seinfeld, who was an obvious analogue for Littlefield.
Was it intended as an inside kind of joke? Did they just figure- “Well, we’ve seen that he can play that guy, so why not?” Just odd.
Our Pride Is Showing!
Today, I am wearing an old sweater.
Dark blue, v-neck and embroidered on the left?
NBC Television Los Angeles ‘81
Accompanied by the era’s peacock logo.
I’d like to think it was the company holiday gift that year and that some executive wore it in his beach house, no shirt underneath, just gold chains and he was doing loads of cocaine on Christmas Eve, nervous because the...
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TODAY'S FAKE CRITERION: A KEY
The tele-vision programs used on today’s Fake Criterions entry:
Row 1 Manimal, Mamma’s Family, Tales of the Gold Monkey, Hunter, Designing Woman, Mr. Merlin Row 2 Mr. Sunshine, Airwolf, Mr. Smith, My Two Dads, Growing Pains, Enos Row 3 Perfect Strangers, Knight Rider, After MASH, TJ Hooker, Charles In Charge, Out of This World Row 4 Who’s the Boss?, Facts of Life, Dynasty, Small...
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“Over the weekend President Reagan and the First Lady screened ‘Soul...”
– Reagans on ‘Soul Man’: Thumbs Up | LA Times, November 13, 1986
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